All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2010 // The manager of a southern New Jersey bowling alley has been charged with arson following a fire that destroyed a popular rival establishment in business for decades. The beloved Loyle Lanes bowling alley burned down last...
Jan 19 2010 // Tom Considine has been nominated as New Jersey’s banking and insurance commissioner. Considine, a MetLife vice president, was named to the job by incoming Gov. Chris Christie. Christie praised Considine for his...
Jan 19 2010 // Insurance agents will be required to notify the state if they have been disciplined by any non-governmental regulatory agency under a new law signed yesterday. The new law requires insurance producers licensed in New...
Jan 15 2010 // Some first-time drunken drivers will have to install ignition interlock devices under legislation approved by both houses of the New Jersey Legislature. The Assembly and Senate both overwhelmingly passed the bill on...
Jan 14 2010 // Four former insurance agents have pleaded guilty for their role in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in premiums, New Jersey’s attorney general said.They are Thomas Hurd, of Bensalem, Pa., William...
Jan 10 2010 // Fairleigh Dickinson University does not have to pay a $260,000 award to the family of a student who died after drinking heavily and falling from a dorm window four years ago, an appeals court has ruled.Keith Orzech, a...
Jan 10 2010 // Twenty-four people, including 17 New York residents, six from New Jersey and one Pennsylvania resident, have been charged with insurance fraud and other related offenses after falsely claiming to be Pennsylvania residents...
Jan 8 2010 // A New Jersey appeals court ruling has expanded protections against sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace.A three-judge panel ruled Wednesday that the female owner of a South Plainfield-based tire business...
Jan 5 2010 // Specialty insurer Torus has hired three New Jersey-based executives to oversee underwriting of primary lines of general liability and auto liability for renewable energy.Angie Adams, Adam Newman and Wayne Jacobson have...
Dec 31 2009 // Fairleigh Dickinson University does not have to pay a $260,000 award to the family of a student who died after drinking heavily and falling from a dorm window four years ago, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.Keith Orzech, a...
Dec 30 2009 // Twenty-four people, including 17 New York residents, six from New Jersey and one Pennsylvania resident, have been charged with insurance fraud and other related offenses after falsely claiming to be Pennsylvania residents...
Dec 23 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a-” of Allstate New Jersey Insurance Group and its members. The outlook for all...
Dec 22 2009 // Marsh & McLennan Agency has acquired The NIA Group, one of the largest independent insurance agencies in the Northeast.Terms of the deal were not released. Paramus, New Jersey-based NIA, founded in 1926, has annual...
Dec 20 2009 // Large insurers AIG, Farmers and The Hartford made moves in 2009, as did large brokers Marsh, Aon, Willis, Gallagher, Brown & Brown, Hub and Wells Fargo. So, too, did, many regional insurers and Main Street agencies....
Dec 6 2009 // The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled the state’s insurance regulator can implement a medical fee schedule for treatments covered by Personal Injury Protection (PIP).The decision upholds an August decision by a...
Dec 6 2009 // Swett & Crawford has hired Carmela Noto as a broker in the insurance wholesaler’s Morristown, New Jersey office. Noto has long-term experience in marketing and managing commercial insurance portfolios and spent...
Dec 4 2009 // Camden, New Jersey officials have decided to borrow nearly $1.2 million to pay a settlement that covers racial discrimination claims brought by two deputy fire chiefs.The City Council approved plans for a $1.175 million...
Dec 3 2009 // New Jersey is No. 2 when it comes to the nation’s highest auto insurance rates.Data in the National Association of Association of Insurance Commissioners’ annual report shows the average Garden State resident...
Dec 3 2009 // New Jersey-based New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, an environmental and construction-related professional liability broker, has added Joseph Buono as an account manager. Buono joins New Day Underwriting from Protector...
Dec 3 2009 // A New Jersey municipality cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars by awarding an insurance contract to a favored public insurance fund over the low-bid private insurer, a state audit claims.A report released by...